The Famished Road Summary

Shortly after birth, it became clear that Azaro was a spirit child. He had vivid dreams, which foretold the future and he could see spirits interacting with the living. The spirits called to him and caused him to leave his body for a time, which caused his parents to think he was dead. He woke up in his own coffin and his parents found they could not afford the spiritual ceremony...

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The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born author known for juxtaposing incisive social critique and African mythological tradition. His Booker Prize-winning third novel, The Famishe...
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The youngest Nigerian writer to have written and published a full-length novel, Ben Okri is the first Nigerian author to succeed as a full-time writer, the first to have won the Booker Prize, and the ...
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Ben Okri is one of the best known of the first generation of Nigerian novelists who have described in their fiction the psychic costs of the Nigerian transition from colonial rule to independence. He ...
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